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It's mostly to pound your chest and throw poo from what I can tell :) You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

This seems appropriate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLrpBLDWyCI You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

Of course they did, but not because of their lack of believe in Gods. Some did. Stalin sent squads out and when they asked people if they believed in God, if they answered yes, they were shot on the spot. Any rate, the argument in the OP ultimately is an appeal to "zomg religious people are nuts and kill people (and therefore, atheists are more moral, upstanding, whatever)" which as history will show, is total nonsense. You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

qft You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

Yeah, atheists have *never* publicly executed someone have they? You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

what were your front legs doing? You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

please, A&W floats are never boring You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

I'll bet when you were a kid everyone got a trophy. Sparky You'd bet wrong :) You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

My ideal jump ship organizes loads for me long before I arrive at the dz so that when I get there, all I have to take my spot in the group. It's always available whenever I'm ready to go, and climbs as fast or as slow as I want. It records everything from boarding to exit, even the jump itself, and every angle it takes is so perfect, so awesome, that I can't come off looking less than God-like in all that I do. It even picks the perfect soundtrack for my youtube video and uploads it for me before I've hit the peas. Once I'm down, it packs my rig just how I like it, fills out my log book and gets it signed off. Oh yeah, and it serves rootbeer floats with french vanilla and A&W. You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

The fear is normal. Like people have said before, if you weren't scared on your first jump(s), something is wrong with you. Take that fear and do something good with it. Pay attention to your instructors and learn :) I was pretty nervous / scared in AFF on all my jumps. The 2nd was worse I think than the first, because the first I didn't know what to expect, but on the ride up on the 2nd jump, I kept thinking, "Okay, I survived once. I can say I did it. Do I really want to tempt fate again?" Once I learned I could get stable if anything went wrong, (barrel roll / flips), my nerves lessened considerably. I was still nervous, but not nearly as much. Right around that time, I asked my instructor about how long it took for those nervous to go away completely. He said about 100 jumps, which I'm not sure how well that applies to everyone, but I'll tell you this, each jump does get easier and it doesn't take long for you to be enjoying every moment of it. My advice would be if there's a part of you that loves the sport, even if you're scared right now, keep pursuing it at whatever pace you are comfortable with. You'll be glad you did. You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

You could ask Mr. Etch-a Sketch Mitt Romney. His Romneycare is almost indistinguishable from ACA. Except for the small matter that it was on the state level and not the Federal. And I don't think it was a multithousand page bill that MA had to pass to find out what was in it either. And... oh why am I even wasting virtual breath? You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

I have a cousin who lives on the west bank of Loch Ness. He says the sightings usually correspond with the opening of the tourist season. Understandable. Tourists are bringing along a lot of noise - thus, Nessie's getting a bit curious and needs to pup up No, they are feeding him. Duh :) You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

She could still apply ;) You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

I was under the impression that to get the packjob portion of your A signed off on, you had to jump it. Is that not right? You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

qft You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

Jesus said lots of things that the "Christian right" now ignores. The point was that Jesus showed bias and prejudice toward some types of business. He also partied with sinners. Business is business, leisure is leisure, how do you choose the right path for you Jesus was a long haired liberal hippie who despised the rich and told people to pay their taxes. Not even close. 99% of what Jesus said, contemporary Libs couldn't stand to hear, let alone practice. You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

It would be like saying Ferrari or even BMW would be worried that someone found a way to make quick Yugo clones. Some people shop at Wal-Mart for jewelry. Some people prefer Tiffany's. Some people want a Casio. Some people want a Rolex. The high end photographers aren't looking to compete with the mwacs at all. MWACs can (and do) give away their services for free (or close to it) all the time, and it doesn't cut into their business because the clientelle they are after are worlds apart. You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

Uh, no. Not even close. Maybe MWACs (mom's with a camera) would be threatened, but no real photographer who has established clients, an amazing portfolio, and spent years upon years refining their craft will ever be threatened by some layman that thinks just because they plop down some decent cash on a camera, they can take good pictures. You haven't been talking to the wedding photographers. The quality of photography has actually declined in recent years as people have decided that crappy iphone cameras are good enough, at least for the majority of people who only post to Facebook. And the wedding profession has been overrun with less experienced people who are willing to do a half decent job for cheap. The best photographers are better than ever. But the amateurs aren't stuck with crappy tools and results anymore. The people who decide they want an MWAC are not the clients good photographers are looking to get. Amateurs with good cameras are just as crappy. It would be like saying someone can be an awesome swooper with a few jumps but the latest rig. Or that you could write the next NYT best sellers with 0 practice / training / etc just because you bought a new laptop. I promise, photographers that routinely get orders (not even for weddings) in the 5-10k range, just roll their eyes at mwacs. I'm not saying there isn't a super-cheap photographer market out there, but if that's the market you're angling for, you'll kill yourself in terms of work put out and money brought in. You'd do better working 7/11. However, if you're going to build a business and charge what you're worth in terms of skill and time spent honing the craft, the people that will pay for you are not the types to hire mwacs. You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

Change we can believe in You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

he probably should take another vacation You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

Uh, no. Not even close. Maybe MWACs (mom's with a camera) would be threatened, but no real photographer who has established clients, an amazing portfolio, and spent years upon years refining their craft will ever be threatened by some layman that thinks just because they plop down some decent cash on a camera, they can take good pictures. You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

Another fact reported today When Walker took office WI was a non-right to work state. So all 60,000 public sector employess had union dues taken from their checks . Now, WI is a right to work state. You can pay union dues or not. Your choice 40,000 no longer pay dues Very impressive in a year I think Tells you something about how important forced union members feel it is to be in a union You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

This guys is behind the times. This girl has been making dead cat art (among others) for a long time now: http://www.looovetinkebell.com/ You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

I'm not particularly for gun control, but I think that in deadly force situations, yeah, I want them extremely tightly circumscribed. LEO have had training, and are formally investigated, if they shoot someone. It's not a perfect system, but it's understood, and since there's some downtime for a cop who shoots someone, it's not something they look for. There are plenty of yahoos out there who are perfectly capable of manipulating the situation so that they end up in an SYG situation multiple times. LEOs draw their gun more often than citizens with a CCW, and LEOs are more likely to make a bad shooting than someone with a CCW. If anything, the LEOs should have less guns and we should have more ;) You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

I didn't read it like that at all. I read it that he wants it to go viral so people have a better chance at not pancaking. You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.